Yup, Indians were much cooler and better bikes. As for H-D, the big tour models like the Road King do have very good handling almost on par with a Gold Wing (ugly as they are). But they are kinda junky and fit and finish is not good, not to mention you have to dump another $5-10k into the engine to make them run. But people buy them for the name. My Royal Star will run circles around every stock H-D and fit-and-finish is a thousand times better. The best factory paint job I have ever seen, though, is the one on my Dad's 2006 Vulcan 2000.
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Allan Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Andrews" <[email protected]> > To: "feistfans-l" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 9:12 AM > Subject: Re: Steve Jobs >> > >> Sony is infamous for crappy marketing of superior products. Remember >> the Betamax? And some very stupid decisions regarding the Playstation >> 3 with screwy backwards compatibility, etc. Sony makes the best TVs >> and just about everything else they make, but you do pay a small >> premium for the name. >> > Betamax wasn't exactly superior. The video playback quality was better - but > to the naked eye the difference wasn't noticeable. The main thing that > killed it was that VHS was able to achieve longer recording/playback times > on each tape than Beta. The original Betamax could only record for an hour > for example - so you couldn't even record an entire movie onto it. > >> Toyota may have taken a small hit with the unfounded claims of product >> flaws in the last year or so (alleged uncontrollable acceleration, >> etc.), but their products are still far superior to their >> 'competition.' Remember the Ford ad where they said 'and quality is >> now equal to Toyota'? It was a lie about being equal, but they were >> admitting that they were not as good on national TV! And Dodge >> doesn't even try to compare themselves to Toyota, just Chevy and Ford. >> > > Depends on which competition you mean. I bought a Mazda when I needed a new > car because it seemed to have a small edge over the equivalent Toyota model. > >> Harley-Davidson screws their customers worse than anyone I've seen on >> price versus quality, yet the people still line up to pay double for >> half the product because of the name. > > Well, the problem is that Harley-Davidson were made very famous by Hollywood > since they wanted an American made motorbike in their movies for "cool" > characters. This gave them a publicity boost they've enjoyed ever since. > Comparitively speaking their bikes aren't as good though, and I've heard > someone say they are actually quite uncomfortable to ride on. > > Allan > > > -- Nick A "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." Bill Vaughan "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato
